Oium

  Götaland
  Gotland
  Wielbark culture in the early 3rd century
  Chernyakhov culture in the early 4th century
  Roman Empire
  Chernyakhov culture, 4th c.

Oium was a name for Scythia, or a fertile part of it, roughly in modern Ukraine, where the Goths, under a legendary King Filimer, settled after leaving Gothiscandza, according to the Getica by Jordanes, written around 551.[1][2][3]

It is generally assumed that the story reproduced by Jordanes contains a historical core, although several scholars have suggested that parts of it are fictional.[4]

  1. ^ Mierow 1908, chapter IV (25)
  2. ^ Green 1998, p. 167.
  3. ^ Merrills 2005, p.120: "The term may, of course, have been a simple invention of Jordanes or Cassiodorus, intended to lend a witty verisimilitude to a knowingly derivative origin myth."
  4. ^ Günnewig 2003.